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“Afrikaans” is a Dutch creole language, derived from the various mother tongues of SA’s Cape Province settlers. It’s one of the many things that colonizers adopted and erased of its non-Western roots. More here: http://bit.ly/ThaniaPetersenxWAT.

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SA’s apartheid government categorized its citizens through a complex set of racial classifications. These classifications — White, Black, Coloured, or Asian — dictated home, right to vote, who you could marry, occupations, and the public facilities you could use.

Apartheid is theoretically no more, and South Africans now have the right to claim the identity they seek, says artist Thania Petersen.

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Cape Muslims have done so much for South Africa, even to the point where most of Cape Town is halal. Still, their socio-political contributions go unrecognized. Artist Thania Petersen seeks to change that. More here: http://bit.ly/ThaniaPetersenxWAT.